On this day in movie history - Rope (1948 movie & play):

Rope

directed by Alfred Hitchcock,

written by Arthur Laurents and Hume Cronyn,

based on the play by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on September 25, 1948.
Music by David Buttolph, Francis Poulenc and Leo F. Forbstein.

Cast:

James Stewart, Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger, Edith Evanson, Douglas Dick, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Alfred Hitchcock.

Recommended reading:

Rope: A play

By Patrick Hamilton.

First published 1929.

a.k.a Rope’s End.

Filmed as Rope (1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by Constable.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0094508607

ISBN-13: 978-0094508606

Description:

Genre: Drama.

Characters: 6 males, 2 females.

Scenery: Interior.

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally, they break down under the strain and confess their guilt.

On this day in movie history - The Dark Corner (1946):

The Dark Corner

directed by Henry Hathaway,

written by Jay Dratler, Bernard C. Schoenfeld,

based on the story by Leo Rosten, serialized in Good Housekeeping (1945),

was released in the United States on May 8, 1946.
Music by Cyril J. Mockridge.

Cast:

Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley, Constance Collier, Eddie Heywood, Colleen Alpaugh, Charles Cane, Ellen Corby, Peter Cusanelli, Ralph Dunn, John Elliott, Mary Field, Alice Fleming, John Goldsworthy, Eugene Goncz, Vincent Graeff, Chuck Hamilton, Eloise Hardt, Sam Harris, John Kelly, Colin Kenny, Molly Lamont, Hope Landin, Thomas Louden, Donald MacBride, Frank Marlowe, Thomas Martin, Matt McHugh, Harold Miller, Tom Monroe, Forbes Murray, Steve Olsen, Lee Phelps, Joe Ploski, Raisa, Isabel Randolph, John Russell, Pietro Sosso, Douglas Spencer, Frieda Stoll, Charles Tannen, Minerva Urecal, Charles Wagenheim, Regina Wallace, Gisela Werbisek, Lynn Whitney.